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Category: Good Stories

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How Do You Find Something to Write About (Bill) (COVID)

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

In class yesterday a woman named Marilyn said How Do You Find Subjects to Write About. I suggested to Marilyn we know one another just a little on Zoom  she tak...

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Rejections (COVID)

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

Dear Esther Cohen Do we know one another, by the way?  A familiar name.  I suppose because there are many of you. Here’s the reason I’m writing  We ...

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What we learn from each other is everything. (COVID)

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

What we learn from each other is everything. Not in explanations,  or reasons why, not in books with how or help in the title, or TED talks or New York Review o...

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LEN AND THE RUGELACH PART 2 (COVID)

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

(I’ve never written a part two to my poems until today)   When I walked by Len homeless man on the corner yesterday (I’d given him some rugelac...

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Mortimer Theodore and Minerva Yesterday (COVID)

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

In class last night Rainey a  writer in the zoom class of Penn South Social Services,  very good writer like everyone else in her class Rainey told us  we are a...

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Zoomin Toobin Fired from the New Yorker (COVID)

Posted on November 12, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

I don’t write sex poems always wanted to Jeffrey Toobin’s penis probably doesn’t count as a Real Sex poem because no one  described in satisfy...

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